2014年10月17日金曜日
2014年10月9日木曜日
Recent European Philosophy's Turn to St. Paul
I mentioned Alain Badiou in this blog before (here and here).
I was just listening to this video below in which NTW discusses some of the recent and contemporary backgrounds of Pauline studies.
In relation to the Pauline Studies themes, Paul and Philosophy and Paul and Politics, NTW mentions some of the names of what I called Recent European Philosophy's Turn to St. Paul: Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, (and of course) Alain Badiou, and Jacob Taubes.
Listen to what NTW has to say about why those philosophers are now turning to St. Paul (about 12 minutes into the video).
I was just listening to this video below in which NTW discusses some of the recent and contemporary backgrounds of Pauline studies.
In relation to the Pauline Studies themes, Paul and Philosophy and Paul and Politics, NTW mentions some of the names of what I called Recent European Philosophy's Turn to St. Paul: Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, (and of course) Alain Badiou, and Jacob Taubes.
Listen to what NTW has to say about why those philosophers are now turning to St. Paul (about 12 minutes into the video).
2014年7月13日日曜日
N. T. Wright on Jimmy Dunn
You can read NTW's Foreword to
Jesus and Paul: Global Perspectives
in Honour of James D. G. Dunn.
A festschrift for his 70th Birthday
(Library of New Testament Studies)
in Honour of James D. G. Dunn.
A festschrift for his 70th Birthday
(Library of New Testament Studies)
just by "Click to Look Inside" button.
(Warning: There are some differences as to how much you can read from the book's Amazon site. If you go by "Click to Look Inside" button, you can't read NTW's Foreword in full. But if you click the link at the top, you can read all. Or at least I could.)
Since the festschrift itself is priced at $133.00, those who are only interested in reading what NTW has to say about his senior NT scholar will find this time and money-saving.
In fact, it's quite amusing!
For example, NTW has this to say about differing interpretations of the identity of the "wretched man" in Romans 7:
Ironically, I had already changed my mind by then on one of the things about which, when I first heard Jimmy lecture, I was most excitedly in agreement with him. I had been arguing for some time, against the majority, that the 'wretched man' in Romans 7 was Paul the Christian; here was a scholar senior to me, and a very lively thinker and lecturer, who set out the case as energetically as I had ever heard it, in his own Tyndale lecture of that year. Alas, by the time I completed my thesis I had come to see things very differently: not that I ever agreed with the normal 'majority' reading then prevalent particularly in Germany, but that I had tried to develop a different way again, taking into acount what seemed to me then, and still seem, fatal objections to the 'Christian' reading. Jimmy and I have not revisited that subject for many years now, but I still recall the amused frustration I felt on realizing that one of the things I thought I actually agreed with him on had now become yet another disagreement.
At any rate, even in these several pages of Foreword, you can get a good biographical data about and between the two of the most distinguished British NT scholars of our period.
2014年7月10日木曜日
アラン・バデューのインパクト
大和郷にある教会
ブログで紹介したこともある、
ベン・マイヤースのFaith and Theologyで、
Alain BadiouのSaint Paul
が紹介されていたのが2007年8月。
実に7年も前だ。
当時の彼はアラン・バデューの「発見」を興奮しながら何回かその後のブログで投稿している。
ベンは「聖パウロ」から以下を引用している。
ブログで紹介したこともある、
ベン・マイヤースのFaith and Theologyで、
Alain BadiouのSaint Paul
が紹介されていたのが2007年8月。
実に7年も前だ。
当時の彼はアラン・バデューの「発見」を興奮しながら何回かその後のブログで投稿している。
ベンは「聖パウロ」から以下を引用している。
“With Paul, we notice a complete absence of the theme of mediation. Christ is not a mediation; he is not that through which we know God. Jesus Christ is the pure event, and as such is not a function, even were it to be a function of knowledge, or revelation…. Christ is a coming; he is what interrupts the previous regime of discourses. Christ is, in himself and for himself, what happens to us. And what is it that happens to us thus? We are relieved of the law. But the idea of mediation remains legal…. [This idea is] a muted negation of evental radicality” (pp. 48-49).Theology with Alain Badiouから。
2014年7月4日金曜日
フライブルグ大学でのライト
たまたま検索していたら、もう終わってしまったが、スイスのフライブルグ大学で、ライトをメイン講師とした神学会議（講演会と言うよりは大きい）があった。
神学会議のサイト
ドイツ語だけでなく英語でも説明等があるので興味深い。
神学会議のパンフレットが何ヶ国語かで用意されているが、英語のもの（ダウンロード完了まで暫く時間がかかる） それによると会議期間中にアラン・バデューによるパウロのアンテオケ事件を題材にした演劇が上演されると言う。
なかなか手の込んだものになったようだ。
The Incident At Antioch (A Play Based On Alain Badiou)
Theater is event, is matter of state, is idea incarnated. With this premise that Alain Badiou wrote the play “The Incident at Antioch” in 1989. Therein he draws on motives from the life and writings of Paul the Apostle to come to terms with the political upheaval in Europe and shifts in his own world view.
Based on this play, students from the faculty of Freiburg (Switzerland) will organise an evening production, guided by the director Simon Helbling and the author Maja Tschumi. To bring Paul to the stage means to rediscover him in new ways. It is about encountering him at a place of relevance in the here and now, with body, voice, heart and mind engaged – not only in the conventional reading of his letters.
Badiou writes: “In the end, Paul himself teaches us that it is neither signs of power nor an exemplary course of life which matter. That which truly matters is the effect of a conviction – here, now and for ever.”
It is a play about the transformative power of a conviction, which can act politically - lapsing into neither riot nor conformity - to change the world. A trans-formative power that is Paul.
Paul In History & TheologyN. T. Wright2014年6月10-13日at the Uiversity of Fribourg, Switzerland
神学会議のサイト
ドイツ語だけでなく英語でも説明等があるので興味深い。
神学会議のパンフレットが何ヶ国語かで用意されているが、英語のもの（ダウンロード完了まで暫く時間がかかる） それによると会議期間中にアラン・バデューによるパウロのアンテオケ事件を題材にした演劇が上演されると言う。
なかなか手の込んだものになったようだ。
The Incident At Antioch (A Play Based On Alain Badiou)
Theater is event, is matter of state, is idea incarnated. With this premise that Alain Badiou wrote the play “The Incident at Antioch” in 1989. Therein he draws on motives from the life and writings of Paul the Apostle to come to terms with the political upheaval in Europe and shifts in his own world view.
Based on this play, students from the faculty of Freiburg (Switzerland) will organise an evening production, guided by the director Simon Helbling and the author Maja Tschumi. To bring Paul to the stage means to rediscover him in new ways. It is about encountering him at a place of relevance in the here and now, with body, voice, heart and mind engaged – not only in the conventional reading of his letters.
Badiou writes: “In the end, Paul himself teaches us that it is neither signs of power nor an exemplary course of life which matter. That which truly matters is the effect of a conviction – here, now and for ever.”
It is a play about the transformative power of a conviction, which can act politically - lapsing into neither riot nor conformity - to change the world. A trans-formative power that is Paul.
2014年6月2日月曜日
Tim Gombis's Reflection on the "Plight and Solution" Framing in the NP.
Since I put the post's title in English, I follow.
(If I have more time left, I'll wrap up in Japanese.)
First, the NP or NPP.
By now there are so many things to read about the issue(s) of the New Perspective, or rather Perspectives, on Paul.
Here in Japan, among the evangelical scholars or pastors, the NPP issues have not been given much attention until, say, a few years ago.
The tide, it seems, has finally turned.
The topic for the Spring Meeting of Japan Evangelical Theological Society Eastern Block, which will be held in Tokyo on June 16, 2014, is on NPP.
Alas, one of the presenters of the Meeting has warned the expected attendees from our N.T. Wright Reading Group that NPP has already become an old topic among top-notch Pauline scholars (in the West, mostly I think).
The dinner has been served and the feast is over; the early arriving guests are already full so they don't have much appetite for it anymore.
The late-comers like us in Japan, however, are not quite sure what the fuss is all about.
They want to know what they have missed in the Pauline scholarship in the last 20 to 30 years or so.
But, the scene has changed a bit by the arrival of NT Wright's magnum opus, Paul and the Faithfulness of God in 2013.
Fellow NT/Pauline scholars have been digging through the 1600 pages to see whether any new light will yet to be noticed.
The searching and finding something new is not so simple but some scholars like Tim Gombis are getting a fresh insight from reading Tom who has read Paul for about 50 plus years.
In N. T. Wright on Paul's "Plight" and More on "The Plight" from Wright, Tim's take (contra NPP critics) is how the soteriological framework is reframed--from the Older Perspective's (individualistic?) sin-salvation framework to the Newer Perspective's "plight-solution" framework in a cosmic scale.
(I might add that the aforementioned presenter cautions us that NTW doesn't much care about how his Pauline interpretation is labeled as New or not.)
(I might also add that I found somewhere NTW saying "there are, to count, 17 or so new perspectives on Paul.)
NPP may be an old topic but you can take it afresh by reading NTW's PFG as Tim Gombis suggests, I think.
と言うところで時間が来てしまいました。
「旧」か「新」かの議論はともかく、ライトの大著から得る視点はまだ色々ありそうです。
斯く言う筆者はその後PFG読書の方は進展していません。あしからず。
.
(If I have more time left, I'll wrap up in Japanese.)
First, the NP or NPP.
By now there are so many things to read about the issue(s) of the New Perspective, or rather Perspectives, on Paul.
Here in Japan, among the evangelical scholars or pastors, the NPP issues have not been given much attention until, say, a few years ago.
The tide, it seems, has finally turned.
The topic for the Spring Meeting of Japan Evangelical Theological Society Eastern Block, which will be held in Tokyo on June 16, 2014, is on NPP.
Alas, one of the presenters of the Meeting has warned the expected attendees from our N.T. Wright Reading Group that NPP has already become an old topic among top-notch Pauline scholars (in the West, mostly I think).
The dinner has been served and the feast is over; the early arriving guests are already full so they don't have much appetite for it anymore.
The late-comers like us in Japan, however, are not quite sure what the fuss is all about.
They want to know what they have missed in the Pauline scholarship in the last 20 to 30 years or so.
But, the scene has changed a bit by the arrival of NT Wright's magnum opus, Paul and the Faithfulness of God in 2013.
Fellow NT/Pauline scholars have been digging through the 1600 pages to see whether any new light will yet to be noticed.
The searching and finding something new is not so simple but some scholars like Tim Gombis are getting a fresh insight from reading Tom who has read Paul for about 50 plus years.
In N. T. Wright on Paul's "Plight" and More on "The Plight" from Wright, Tim's take (contra NPP critics) is how the soteriological framework is reframed--from the Older Perspective's (individualistic?) sin-salvation framework to the Newer Perspective's "plight-solution" framework in a cosmic scale.
(I might add that the aforementioned presenter cautions us that NTW doesn't much care about how his Pauline interpretation is labeled as New or not.)
(I might also add that I found somewhere NTW saying "there are, to count, 17 or so new perspectives on Paul.)
NPP may be an old topic but you can take it afresh by reading NTW's PFG as Tim Gombis suggests, I think.
と言うところで時間が来てしまいました。
「旧」か「新」かの議論はともかく、ライトの大著から得る視点はまだ色々ありそうです。
斯く言う筆者はその後PFG読書の方は進展していません。あしからず。
.
2014年5月19日月曜日
Alain Badiou's "Contemporary" Paul and Radical Universalism
Well, this is just a shot at what contemporary philosophers are doing with St. Paul.
Alain Badiou, is a French philosopher at the European Graduate School (EGS) with colleagues such as (only those I can tell by name) George Agamben, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek.
He has a website created by his admirers, mostly I think, at Badiou Studies.
Alain Badiou is:
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
I haven't read him or this book but an article like this one tells that contemporary philosophers/thinkers outside the NT guild reading Paul in unexpectedly productive way, perhaps.
For those who are interested in listening to a strange voice with French accent in the wilderness...
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(1) A. J. Bartlett, "Refuse become subject: The educational ethic of Saint Paul," Badiou Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2014), pp. 210. (http://badioustudiesorg.ipower.com/cgi-bin/ojs-2.3.6/index.php/ijbs/article/view/76/full%20text.)
(2) Batrett, ibid., p. 209.
Alain Badiou, is a French philosopher at the European Graduate School (EGS) with colleagues such as (only those I can tell by name) George Agamben, Judith Butler, and Slavoj Zizek.
He has a website created by his admirers, mostly I think, at Badiou Studies.
Alain Badiou is:
[o]ne of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts. His philosophy seeks to expose and make sense of the potential of radical innovation (revolution, invention, transfiguration) in every situation. (from "biography")Why I have picked up Badiou is because he has written a book utilizing Paul's thoughht in the NT epistles.
Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
I haven't read him or this book but an article like this one tells that contemporary philosophers/thinkers outside the NT guild reading Paul in unexpectedly productive way, perhaps.
Paul, as noted, works on the basis that anyone at all convinced of the rising of the son is thereby capable of entering into the production of this new praxis wherever they are, whoever they are and despite customs, rites, sex and class and so on. Equality is declared here and now and indeed it‘s this declaration that renders the subject (always) out of time with its time. It provides all Paul‘s 'teachings' – no doubt he remains in his action a Pharisee – with an orientation that makes them untenable as such before the Law. (1)Well, I don't know how to make of this kind move to make Paul contemporary to our world, but we may listen to what they can tell us about, e.g., "a series of doublings" (or, for some, dichotomies) like: "Law/faith, flesh/spirit, Jew/gentile, truth/knowledge and so on." (2)
For those who are interested in listening to a strange voice with French accent in the wilderness...
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(1) A. J. Bartlett, "Refuse become subject: The educational ethic of Saint Paul," Badiou Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2014), pp. 210. (http://badioustudiesorg.ipower.com/cgi-bin/ojs-2.3.6/index.php/ijbs/article/view/76/full%20text.)
(2) Batrett, ibid., p. 209.
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